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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

Help & support

Importing your respondent list

While it’s easy to add a few individual respondents to your survey access control list manually, if you have a long list of participants then it will be much quicker…

Changing respondent details

This Help page applies to surveys where survey access control has been enabled and a respondent list has been created. If you have discovered an error in your respondent list…

Pre-populating questions

…be pre-populated. Pre-populate the answer(s) using survey access control. Pre-populate the answer(s) without survey access control. Setting up the question(s) to be pre-populated First, decide where you will add your…

Controlling who can complete your survey

For additional survey security and monitoring you can use survey access control to set up a list of individual respondent details (instead of an overall survey password). This will: Let…

Benchmarking

…own online surveys account, there is no extra charge – this is part of the core functionality of online surveys. If you wish to run a benchmarking survey across several…

Managing users

…list. Find a user. Edit a user. Remove a user. See which surveys a user has access to (Organisation accounts only). Access the user list To access the user list:…

Adding files to your survey

…third parties (or arising from our own audits) regarding copyright infringement will be passed on to the institution holding the online surveys account. We reserve the right to temporarily disable…

Setting your survey’s completion options

You can customise the way respondents navigate and complete your survey. To access these settings, go to the Design tab of your survey and click on Survey settings in the…

How do I change the survey status?

…you cannot return it to draft status. Should you need to make changes to a launched survey, please see our Help article on editing a launched survey for more information….